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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: there helpless, and was so to lie all night, injured, perhaps
dying. But it was now too late; reason had now fled from that
silent ship. If Carthew could get on deck again, it was as much
as he could hope; and casting on the unfortunate a glance of
pity, the tragic drunkard shouldered his way up the companion,
dropped the case overboard, and fell in the scuppers helpless.
CHAPTER XXV.
A BAD BARGAIN.
With the first colour in the east, Carthew awoke and sat up. A
while he gazed at the scroll of the morning bank and the spars
and hanging canvas of the brig, like a man who wakes in a
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